• The base tire on the C8 Stingray is a newly developed Michelin all-season tire, the Pilot Sport All Season 4 (the previous Corvette only offered summer performance tires).
• While it might seem counter intuitive to specify all-season tires on a mid-engine sports car, the goal for these tires is 1.00 g of lateral grip, which is higher than what the C6 Corvette could manage on summer tires.
• Michelin expects Corvettes with Pilot Sport 4S summer tires to pull between 1.03 and 1.05 g.

Chevy's decision to deliberately reduce the dynamic capabilities of the new, mid-engine Corvette by making all-season, non-performance tires standard seems more than a bit counter intuitive.
After all, the primary reason for moving the Corvette's engine behind the passenger compartment is to improve performance.
But, as Corvette executive chief engineer Tadge Juechter explains, "More customers than ever are saying that they'd really like to drive three seasons on the same tires."
So, standard on the base FE1 suspension setup Stingray is Michelin's new Pilot Sport All Season 4, a run-flat tire that Michelin and Chevy developed specifically for this car.

Tires have improved to the point that today's all-season tires can provide dry grip that's better than what summer tires could do not that long ago.
Indeed, the primary goal of this new all-season tire was to achieve 1.00 g lateral acceleration that's more than what the C6 Corvette's summer tires could achieve while still permitting realistic three-season driving.
Five years of development have produced a tire with an all-new structure, compounds, and tread pattern, although, as the accompanying photo shows, that tread is certainly inspired by Michelin's Pilot Sport 4S summer tire.

Though Michelin says the tire has yet to reach 1.00 g, it's closer than any other all-season tire we know of.
According to Michelin, the tire currently generates a minimum 0.95 g depending on the surface, but Chevy hasn't finalized the Stingray's chassis calibration, so more grip might still be found before production.